Four People

This is a story about four people.  There names are Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody.  This was an important task to be done and Everybody was sure Somebody would do it.  Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it.   Somebody got angry about that, because it was Everybody's job.  Everybody thought Anybody could do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn't do it.  It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have.

There was once a farmer who had two mules. One was named "willing" and the other was named "able." The story goes that willing was willing, but was not able. On the other hand, able was able, but was not willing. Able thought willing should have been more able, but how could he, when he was not able, but was willing?  Willing thought able should have been more willing, but how could he, when he was not willing, but was able?  All would have been great, if only willing, would have been more able, and able more willing, but neither willing nor able, were both willing and able, and as you can might expect, the farmer didn't get much done.

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